John Dragoon’s Blog

As Novell and Microsoft approach the two year anniversary of our interoperability partnership, it seems appropriate to highlight the joint innovation that’s been delivered on behalf of our customer’s agenda of making Windows and Linux work well together.

Our partnership has been a lot more than talk and press releases. In fact, our joint investment in an interoperability lab has delivered significant innovation in bi-directional virtualization, document compatibility and cross platform systems and identity management. The best, and I believe most interesting, place to discover all this is at our newly refreshed site at moreinterop.com.

This new site has a ton of new features and information and takes advantage of some of the best in multimedia to make the discovery both interesting and educational. In particular, I invite you to take a tour of the new interoperability Lab. This site will be growing in the weeks and months ahead with the launch of local language versions in French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese.

Let us know what you think.

John

It’s a testament to software legacy when you release the 8th version of a product. It indicates a certain longevity and customer satisfaction and a commitment to innovation. We’re proud to celebrate an important milestone this month. Our GroupWise product, known for more than 20 years as the most secure and reliable e-mail and calendaring solution on the market, has a new release in open beta. The highly anticipated GroupWise 8 continues the product’s long-term legacy–while taking personal productivity to a whole new level with a fully connected collaborative workspace that leverages the latest Web 2.0 technologies. For instance, with GroupWise 8, users can add wikis and blogs, RSS feeds and Web pages to their Home View. They can publish their calendars to the outside world and busy search across e-mail systems. They can manage contacts more effectively than ever before. And with more robust Linux, Mac and WebAccess clients, they can work on their preferred platform and in a way that suits them best.

This is a beta you simply have to experience for yourself. For our internal Linux and Mac users, the reaction has been phenomenal. They’re enjoying a whole host of new features that help them work smarter, faster and better. Our mobile workforce is discovering how powerful a thin, Web-based client can be. And there’s a lot for Windows client users, too, including brand new technology and enhancements to some of the great features that have been in the product since our last major release.

We all develop ruts in our work–things we do by force of habit even if they’re less-than-effective ways to get the job done. With the release of GroupWise 8 later this year, it’s time to break out and take advantage of next-generation collaboration technology–as well as some of the existing features you may not have realized were there–that can help achieve more individually or as part of a larger team. I’m excited about what the new GroupWise can do for me, and I’m confident it will revolutionize productivity for you.

To download the open beta—and to learn more about eight can’t-do-without features we’ve added to each client as well as the administrative back end—visit http://novell.com/promo/openbeta.html.

Thanks.

John